Across Five Aprils Summary

Across Five Aprils appeals to a rather specialized audience. The sophisticated treatment of the Civil War themes requires some familiarity with the great upheaval in American history. This quiet story unfolds in a rural corner of southern Illinois and describes the effects of the war on a human scale, concentrating on the experiences of Jethro Creighton. There are no firsthand accounts of battles from Jethro: everything about the fighting is filtered through letters...

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Across Five Aprils - Irene Hunt - 1964
Introduction
Across Five Aprils was first released in the United States in 1964, during the country&#x0027;s five-year-long centennial to commemorate the Civil W...
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Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
Born in 1907, Irene Hunt lived in southern Illinois for most of her life. A number of her ancestors had lived in the region during the Civil War. Her grandfather, w...
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"With her first book, Across Five Aprils," writes Clyde Robert Bulla in Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, "Irene Hunt established herself as one of America's finest historical novelists." In her w...
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Irene Hunt says, "Words have always held a fascination for me, causing me to be teased often as a child when I used them lavishly without having the slightest idea of their meaning. The wish to write ...
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